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Whether they’re tossed aside carelessly or discarded maliciously, some pieces of history just get lost.  Like the story of Florence Molloy and Mabel MacLeay, who...

Art saves lives. That’s not hyperbole or exaggeration. Creating art as a release has let countless razorblades sleep soundly in their drawers. Consuming art that expresses what someone can’t say themselves, something that tells them “you’re not alone” or distracts ...

My grandmother once told me the greatest pain ever felt was felt by a parent burying her own child. Nothing could feel more unnatural....

The Boulder International Film Festival is a local cinematic staple. And in 2020, BIFF was one of the last in-person events held before the...

The Tourist is a facsimile of a masquerade of a gloss on Charade, and on all the lesser cinematic charades that followed in the wake of director Stanley Donen’s 1963 picture. While it’s fairly easy to take in its retro way — it certainly takes it easy on the audience...

After her uninspired acting in the tedious Wanted, I was leery about seeing Angelina Jolie in another action film, though I loved her as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider. She’s back in fine form in Salt, however, as tough CIA field agent Evelyn Salt, forced to clear her ...

So it's fare-thee-well, my own true love. We'll meet an-other day, an-other time. It ain't the leavin' that's a-grievin' me, but my darlin' who's...

I’m not saying that the impoverished are going to grab axes and violently murder the wealthy elite. But… Writer/director Joon-ho Bong’s Snowpiercer does what the sci-fi genre does better than any other cinematic medium: examines modern life by asking a surreal “what ...

As the American presidential race continues to heat up, more and more Americans divide themselves across party lines and political predilections. Yet, few see...

Before he was a filmmaker, Peter Bogdanovich was a critic and historian par excellence. Coming of age as the first wave of Hollywood filmmakers...

Six years ago, Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby showed up late in the release calendar and walloped enough fans of boxing melodrama cliches to send it straight to the Academy Awards. Now comes The Fighter, an off-center but exceptional boxing film that I prefer ...